Kroenke Versus McMahon
If you think that the row between the WWE and Denver Nuggets owner E. Stanley Kroenke is over, then you are badly mistaken. This issue it seems is far from over, not by a longshot.
While the WWE already announced that the Raw taping will now be held in the Staples Center and not in Denver, Vince McMahon’s publicity machine is trying to generate as much buzz as possible out of the situation. Now the company’s next step is quite predictable: film a parody of the situation in the next episode of Raw.
The reports say that the Kroenke Sports negotiated with the WWE and proposed that Raw can be taped on Sunday, May 24, 2009 at the Pepsi Center but the talks broke down and the WWE bolted to the Staples Center instead. While it was a viable solution given that tickets of the event have already been sold, the WWE still felt that they had the right hold their event on the day it was booked. We all know that wasn’t going to happen and Vince McMahon doesn’t like being given the short end of the stick.
I must say that Kroenke’s organization is at fault here. At first, they didn’t have faith on their team, at least not enough for them to make it this deep in the NBA Playoffs. Second, they could have offered McMahon more to avoid embarrassment. Even if the Kroenke Sports won’t add more fuel to the fire, they don’t have to worry about that department: McMahon’s got all the publicity firepower to make this interesting to the fans. What the Nuggets didn’t probably realize is how McMahon’s publicity machinery works. What they don’t understand is that McMahon won’t budge easily and even if he does, he can turn things around and make it look like the WWE was screwed by a bigger sports entity.
It’s easy to predict what McMahon will do on the next episode of Raw. He’ll probably hire a E. Stanley Kroenke lookalike and beat him up in the ring, or at least make it look convincing. McMahon will play the victim first, telling the fans how the WWE was cheated out and how it was really the WWE fans in Denver were the people who got screwed by the owner of their hometown team. McMahon will thank the city of Los Angeles and wish they win the playoff series against Denver. You can just picture it out, can’t you? McMahon will have the people eating at the palm of his hand this coming Monday.
Kroenke Sports just doesn’t have the experience in this type of situation. The best they can do was release a statement that “Vince is sensationalist.” Quick to point out the obvious, aren’t they? Vince has had decades of experience under his belt promoting ideas like this. If that’s the best they can do then they should just tune in to Raw on Monday where some guy dressed as E. Stanley Kroenke gets beat up by Vince McMahon. You can bet on it.
Author: Miranda
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May 28th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Vince doesn’t want to answer the question of why he doesn’t file a lawsuit for one reason – WWE has no legal grounding. The contract provided for the eventuality by allowing Kroenke to void the contract in the event of a conflict with the NBA. Kroenke, rather than outright cancelling, tried to work with Vince to move the date to Sunday – a solution which was acceptable to WWE by all accounts except for it’s lack of drama and publicity. What Vince doesn’t get in this case is NOBODY CARES about any of it – the mainstream media has declared it dead and WWE fans want a real story featuring WWE heroes and villans, not some guy they never heard of.